June 19, 2017

Education Dept. Says It Will Scale Back Civil Rights Investigations

WASHINGTON — The Department of Education is scaling back investigations into civil rights violations at the nation’s public schools and universities, easing off mandates imposed by the Obama administration that the new leadership says have bogged down the agency.

According to an internal memo issued by Candice E. Jackson, the acting head of the department’s office for civil rights, requirements that investigators broaden their inquiries to identify systemic issues and whole classes of victims will be scaled back. Also, regional offices will no longer be required to alert department officials in Washington of all highly sensitive complaints on issues such as the disproportionate disciplining of minority students and the mishandling of sexual assaults on college campuses.



https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/education-department-civil-rights-betsy-devos.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referer=https://t.co/nOfYu8IdXO



From Candice E. Jackson and her Memorandum

https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/3863019-doc00742420170609111824.html


Here is very good synopsis of this person and her history:

Candice E. Jackson


http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/dept-education-s-candice-e-jackson-fraud

June 18, 2017

This jerk sees no difference, and then we can hear the same "old right wing talking points"

and apparently he wasn't held responsible in this "interview" by the right wing hack called Cheryl Atkinson about the funds that this jerk cut from the state department for force protection of embassies and the state department.

And now we have a seats 550 unfilled at the state department and other departments because of the sexual predator and his lackey's are nothing more than plutocrats and ................

Just think, Chaffetz, you get your tax payer funded health insurance now-------------while screwing the general public, what a legacy

June 18, 2017

Stelter from CNN says that Jones is a Virus and Megan Kelly is spreading the Virus

June 18, 2017

Georgia 6th District Special Election Report by Greg Palast

Republican mantra, can't win fairly --------------cheat, Handle used Cross Checked, when she was Sec. of State of Georgia, how convenient

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Handel

June 18, 2017

The Koch Brothers Want To Rewrite The Constitution. They May Succeed.

The Wisconsin Assembly votes Wednesday on whether to call for a convention to change the U.S. Constitution. While that in itself is surprising — the American people have never exercised their legally enshrined right to convene a new Constitutional convention — what’s more surprising is that pro-business groups with ties to the Koch brothers have pushed for similar legislation in more than 30 states, and they’ve been remarkably successful: A dozen states have passed bills calling for a convention that would produce an altered Constitution that would likely limit federal spending and power.



http://www.nationalmemo.com/koch-brothers-want-rewrite-constitution-may-succeed/



We the people really need to take back this country from the kleptocracy / plutocracy that is unfolding right before our eyes, and Wisconsin is a "good" place to start, and then Michigan

June 18, 2017

GOPs Planned Attack On Our Health Care System Overwhelmingly Targets Blue States

If Americans think their country is divided now, they better hope the runaway train that is the Senate’s secret bill to destroy government-assisted healthcare has a crash landing.

That’s because the little that’s known about the Senate bill—with its revisions to a House-passed package to repeal Obamacare, eviscerate Medicaid funding and force it to ration care, and give the rich a tax cut—will further divide the country along red and blue lines.


http://www.nationalmemo.com/gops-planned-attack-health-care-system-overwhelmingly-targets-blue-states/

June 17, 2017

The American Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States

Abstract

View job loss by state

Issue: The American Health Care Act (AHCA), passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The Congressional Budget Office indicates that the AHCA could increase the number of uninsured by 23 million by 2026.
Goal: To determine the consequences of the AHCA on employment and economic activity in every state.
Methods: We compute changes in federal spending and revenue from 2018 to 2026 for each state and use the PI+ model to project the effects on states’ employment and economies.

Findings and Conclusions: The AHCA would raise employment and economic activity at first, but lower them in the long run. It initially raises the federal deficit when taxes are repealed, leading to 864,000 more jobs in 2018. In later years, reductions in support for health insurance cause negative economic effects. By 2026, 924,000 jobs would be lost, gross state products would be $93 billion lower, and business output would be $148 billion less. About three-quarters of jobs lost (725,000) would be in the health care sector. States which expanded Medicaid would experience faster and deeper economic losses.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2017/jun/ahca-economic-and-employment-consequences?link_id=0&can_id=6137a7bd52124421b1abb184b994c764&source=email-subjectgoeshere-6-7-2-8-6&email_referrer=subjectgoeshere-6-7-2-8-6&email_subject=expand-improve-health-care

Call your senators

We the people want Healthcare it is a fucking right, not a fucking privilege

June 17, 2017

Watergate June 17, 1972

June 16, 2017

How the press is helping Republicans keep their health care bill secret

Senate Republicans are deliberately crafting legislation in complete secret. And it’s not just any legislation. This is a sprawling social policy bill that would directly impact the welfare of tens of millions of Americans.

The bill represents the hallmark legislative promise that the Republican Party has been making for seven years: to repeal and replace Obamacare. For Republicans, it’s arguably their most important piece of lawmaking this century.

Spooked by the prospect of mass public resistance to the legislation, Republicans are strategically keeping it under wraps from the press and the public so they don’t know exactly what’s being planned. (And who’s in charge of drafting the bill? According to press reports the secret bill is being negotiated by a core group of 13 men.)


https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/16/how-press-helping-republicans-keep-their-health-care-bill-secret/216936


Really need to call our senators and ask them to add filibuster amendments one at a time to this bill if and when it comes to the floor, and to withhold unanimous consent to proceed on every line of the bill of death, and every penny taken away for tax cuts

June 16, 2017

PBS is airing right-wing-sponsored school privatization propaganda

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her department have pushed for an expansion of privatized school choice programs in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2018, particularly in the form of private school vouchers. Now a propagandistic three-part documentary series called School Inc. will help DeVos in her efforts to gain public support for expanded private school choice options. The series has already aired on PBS stations in some markets and will be shown on more this month.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/14/pbs-set-air-right-wing-sponsored-school-privatization-propaganda/216907